The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing … - Walter Bagehot

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Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

Walter Bagehot

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

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